The Uber Turret is a colonization tool that, after being placed on a colonized world, self constructs and patrols the planet, attacking any enemy UFOs that assault your planet.

Due to its massive health, few enemies will be able to destroy it. It is recommended to place it on a planet with frequent attacks or near enemy territory.

If the player has enough money, they can place Uber Turrets on all of their planets to virtually ignore any attack message and worry about other things. It is important to note that although the Uber Turret is powerful, it is not perfect. Large invasions may be able to destroy some buildings if the Uber Turret does not manage to destroy the attackers in time. However, the speed and power of the turret means damage is usually very small and rare.

As a testament to the Uber Turret's effectiveness, Grox attacks on planets fitted with regular turrets and the uber turret may fail, even though they usually have 4 or 5 2,000 health spaceships and some smaller escort ships. However, unless your planets are T3 or T2 with 3 colonies all with full turret slots, quite a few buildings would be destroyed, so unless you have a lot of money to rebuild with (or you don't really care about your people, or you are in a mission etc.) it is best to go back and help defend, as T0 and T1 planets rarely survive.

Uber Turrets are able to destroy any pirate raids in a manner of seconds due to pirate's ships being very low on health.

Trivia

There is no current way of removing the Uber turret, even if the colony is destroyed.

When it is scanned with the Scanner tool, it will display "A new spaceship, , was analyzed and added to your sporepedia.". The reason it displays a blank space at where the starship name would normally be most likely is because the Uber Turret is not actually a spaceship, yet it is treated like one.

There is chance that Uber Turret will looks like players current ship. It's bug that can be solved by leaving and re-entering planet.